Monroy
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name from Monroy (‘red mountain’), a place in Caceres province
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/monroi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Monroy is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Colombia than in any other country. In Guatemala it is the 25th most common surname.
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 870(inferred from the name graph)
- COColombia≈1 in 1.8K
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 2.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Colombia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 312 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 870 (inferred from the name graph)
≈28,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Guatemala, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
habitational name from Monroy (‘red mountain’), a place in Caceres province.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Monroy counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CO Colombia | #220 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 25 | Monroy | 140 |
| GT Guatemala | #25 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 870 | — | Monroy | 77 |
| US United States | — | 14,673 | 1 in 23K | 15K | Monroy | 312 |
| ES Spain | #835 | 4,852 | 1 in 10K | 4.9K | Monroy | 122 |
| VE Venezuela | #645 | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 6K | — | Monroy | 41 |
| CL Chile | #603 | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Monroy | 76 |
| SV El Salvador | #303 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Monroy | 32 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: the co-datosgov-candidates register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Monroy is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Spanish, a surname from placenames
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Carlos Julio Arosemena Monroyb. 1919ECPresident of Ecuador (1961 - 1963)
- Humberto Monroyb. 1945COColombian musician and guitarist (1945-1992)
- Beatrice Monroyb. 1953ITItalian writer
- René Francis Merino Monroyb. 1963SVMinister of Defense of El Salvador (2019–present)
- Sonia Monroyb. 1972ESactress, singer and TV panelist
- Liza Monroyb. 1979USAmerican writer
- José Luis Lópezb. 1979MXnot in their usual nameMexican footballer
- Yony Floresb. 1983GTnot in their usual nameGuatemalan footballer
- Meneses Monroyb. 1984MXMexican lawyer and writer
- Aitor Monroy Ruedab. 1987ESSpanish footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 27 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 15K | #2,410 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 15K | #2,456 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 9.2K | #3,540 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 4.9K | #1,083 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 4.9K | #1,083 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 25 | #91 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Monroy mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name from Monroy (‘red mountain’), a place in Caceres province. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Monroy?
- A machine transcription gives /monroi/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- In which country does Monroy have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 28 thousand people named Monroy in Colombia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled monroy.
- How common is the name Monroy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 14,673 people named Monroy in 2010, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
- How common is Monroy compared with other names?
- In Colombia, Monroy is the 220th most common surname of 144,306 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/monroyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Monroy” — the 220th most common surname in Colombia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.